so...nvidia sucks, huh?

Yes, and no. Both systems let you leverage the computing power of more than 1 GPU, but they do it in different ways. A basic article comparing the two (from 2005, unfortunately) is SLi and Crossfire - A Comparison, posted on megagames.com.

 

Bloomsfield is a CPU running of X58 chipset boards - on an Intel board you won't get SLI support but the NVIDIA boards that support Bloomsfield will obviously be SLI. Without seeing more than a couple of 4870 crossfire benchmarks it's dificult to say what the X2s will be like. I know from personal experience than 2 x 3870X2s is a complete waste of time - a single 9800GX2 is MUCH better in game performance. At the moment it's looking like 2 x 4870s in crossfire isn't really beating a single 280GTX, let alone 2 x 260GTXs or 2 x 280GTXs. NVIDIA still have the most powerful cards on the market by a margin.

With Intel working on Larrabee etc and NVIDIA possible having something up their sleeve, how long will it be before the best cards for an Intel board are Intel, not ATi?

(Intel CPU platform) Crossfire runs 2+ Ati cards together on Intel chip boards, SLI runs 2+ NVIDIA cards on an NVIDIA board. There are exceptions to this e.g. Skulltrail and the Intel 965 chiset in out D901C notebooks which run SLI

 

Well, explain the 8800M GTX SLI on the PM965 or whatever it`s called.

I`m sure glad my 8800M GTXs are perfect so far

 

He did...read his last sentence.

 

When you consider the prices (4850=$200, 4870=~$300 and GT280=$650 soon-to-be $570), the AMD cards are definitely competing in the price/performance ratio.

 

yeah, but anyone wanting to go with high end cards, usually wants to go with the best since they are spending so much money do you not agree? Nvidia would then be the number one choice for the majority.

 

Well not necessarily. While its true enthusiasts tend to shun price completely if something that's less than half the price is 90-95% as good, that item will generate a lot more total sales with the "casual" hardcore gamer that still has a budget in mind.

 

yeah, ok you win there.

 

the tech support person said that is was a problem with my video card

 

It might be that the computer works but nothing is being displayed since the graphics card isn't outputting anything. I think you should send it in for an analysis. What card do you have btw?

 

I think you're talking to me, but I havent read the recent parts of this thread.
I made a thread about this problem a few weeks ago. It's already fixed but anyhow, the laptop wouldn't boot at all- no blue ring around the power button, all LEDs off, etc. see thread if you want more details. And it was an 8800MGTX

 

so, you mind sharing how you got it to work?

 

... It was under warranty and I sent it in to sager and they repaired it- the people that repaired it said that the problem was with the video card.